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I need an alarm app that lets me scan QR codes. I find that it helps me get out of bed and take my meds in a timely manner. I have QRalarm but it's a onetime use alarm and I can't schedule times for certain days which I find to be really important. I normally use alarmy but it requires the Google Play store and I'd prefer to not have that yk.

Anyone know a foss option?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not with qr but nfc tags. Since these are cheap you could give it a try

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.nfcalarmclock

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This would probably work great most of the time. One worry I had when exploring NFC tags was if the tag gets lost, or you are out of home and forget to skip the alarm

With barcodes/QR you can generate one on the spot if you know what the original one was. Some people just have a thing for the word "barcode"

Example

I guess you could always uninstall the app or force shut down the phone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is that a QR code that says “barcode”?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is, for legacy reasons

(I quickly threw it together)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m just making sure I decoded it correctly. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ah makes sense :)

I find that it's similar to security questions, where I might not remember what exactly to input when I need to regenerate it. "qrcode" vs. "QR-code" etc.

A better solution to my problem might be to add the code as text, underneath the image when printing it out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As far as I can tell this is not foss?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nope it's not, but that would have been my recommendation as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Always trust an otter. Except sea otters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I agree... no wait a minute

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

It's not foss. But it's great. I've been using it every night since 2012. It also has qr codes to do what you wanted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you've got a computer as an alarm clock if you just want something to get up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's specifically the QR and barcode reading thing that I need because it forced me to get out of bed, walk to my bathroom, and scan the bar code on my medication bottle. QRalarm would be fine for this except that I cannot schedule the alarms to ring and instead have to set them nightly which I wont remember to do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried using Tasker to schedule QRalarm for you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

https://tasker.joaoapps.com/

it's an android app that lets you automate almost anything on your phone/android system. downsides are it's a pay app, not foss, and fairly complicated to set up at first. upsides are it is almost unlimited with what you can automate. looks like there is a free trial. might be a lemmy-instance for it, (there's a reddit sub) disclaimer; i haven't used it for a while now on older android releases.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

~~QRAlarm seems to be what you are looking for. It's available on GitHub and the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repo.~~ Nevermind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Someone didn't read the post...